Global Lockdowns Set To Plunge 100 Million Into Extreme Poverty | Zero Hedge 8/12/20, 4:23 AM

Global Lockdowns Set To Plunge 100

Million Into Extreme Poverty
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

The impact of the global coronavirus lockdown is set to plunge 100

million people into extreme poverty, warns a new report by the Pulitzer
Center on Crisis Reporting.

The report appears to pin the blame on COVID-19 itself for the economic
impact, yet the actual culprit is discovered to be the “restrictions” put
in place by governments in response to the pandemic.

From the report;

“With the virus and its restrictions, up to 100 million more people
globally could fall into the bitter existence of living on just $1.90 a
day, according to the World Bank. That’s “well below any reasonable
conception of a life with dignity,” the United Nations special rapporteur
on extreme poverty wrote this year. And it comes on top of the 736

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million people already there, half of them in just five countries: Ethiopia,
India, Nigeria, Congo and Bangladesh.”

The report notes that the impact of the lockdown on the poor in countries
like India was “so abrupt and punishing” that their Prime Minister, Narendra
Modi, begged for forgiveness.

The report will stir up further debate as to whether the global

lockdown will prove more deadly than COVID-19 itself, with extreme
poverty being directly linked to death and shortened life spans.
According to research published by Imperial College London and Johns
Hopkins University, around 1.4 million people are expected to die from
untreated TB infections due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Experts have also warned that hundreds of thousands or even millions

of people could die in the longer term as a result of the lockdown
preventing them from receiving treatment for cancer and other serious
illnesses.

Given that many of those sunk into extreme poverty as a result of the
lockdown live in sub-Saharan Africa, this could also exacerbate mass
immigration from that region into Europe.

“It’s a timely reminder that the the main cost of the lockdowns favoured
by liberal policy-makers across the world will not be people in the West,
but those hovering just above the poverty line in the developing
world,” writes Toby Young.

“Thanks to the misguided enthusiasm of Western governments for

imprisoning entire populations in their homes, thereby triggering a
global recession, tens of millions of people will die of starvation in
low-income countries.”

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